The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1887-01-13

1st, and author OF the popular quaint melo-
dy, 1.-THE Arkansaw Traveller" died at his
home in Covington, KY, on the 9Th.
The Chicago Raii,cay Age Of the 7th pub
fishes statistics showing that during the
past year not less than forty-dve railways
with 1857 miles of main line, representing
bonded debt Of s170, LAC, 500 and capital
stock Of S2O3, ,969, 200, making total of
nearly 1914, 900, have been sold under
foreclosure and transferred to new owner
ship.
At st. Louis on the 9th Judge Treat SEN
fenced Joseph d. White, Of Waco, Texas,
who has been in Jail since August, 1885, OF
a charge preferred by the United States
Government OF counterfeiting Brazilian
treasury notes, to three years in the peni-
tentiary.
In his annual message Governor Oglesby,
Of Illinois, devotes much space to the labor
troubles and speaks OF the necessity which
compelled the sending Of State troops to
Lemont, East ST. Louis and the packing
house district near Chicago.
The foundry department of E. p. Allis &
Co.'S machine works at Milwaukee, Wis,
burned on the 9th, entailing q loss of $780,
0O0
An important suit affecting the legality Of
railroad aid bonds has just been instituted
at Morrillton, Ark. This class of bonds
dollars and are nearly all held in New York
City.
A concurrent resolution providing for the
submission Of the question of the prohibi-
ton Of the sale of intoxicating beverages to
a popular vote was introduced in both
branches Of the Missouri Legislature on the
9th.
At Jackson Tenn, on the 7th Scott Pick
ler, aged twelve, and Chester Dodd, aged
ten, SONS of prominent citizens, quarreled
over some trivial matter. Picker went
home, procured a gun and shot Dodd, kill
ing him instantly.
Thomas Stevens, who started from San
Francisco, April IS, 1884, on bicycle tour
of the globe, arrived in that city on the 7th
from Japan on the steamer City Of Pekin.
Rev. ]. ]. Glossbrenner, bishop emeritus
of the United Brethren Church, died on the
7th ut Churchville, Va, aged seventy -four
years. He was one Of the best known cler-
gymen Of his denomination in the country.
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.
. A desperate fight took place near Nuevo
Laredo, Mex, on the 4th between the
Guardas Rurales and about fifty smugglers
from the American side, conveying about
900 worth Of goods into the interior.
The finale was ten dead smugglers and
three guards, with the goods in the hands
OF the authorities.
An explosion in coal pit at Mons, Bel
gium, caused the death Of thirty-seven per-
sons.
Advices from Buenos Ayres, Argentine
Republic, under date Of December 10, state
that cholera in its most malignant form was
raging there and the number Of deaths
daily were frightful. The dead were re-
moved to the outskirts of the city, piled up
like cross ties and burned.
A fire caused by the lights on Christ
mas tree broke out in the Odescalchi palace
at Rome few days ago. All the jewels
belonging to the Princesses, all the valua-
BILE missals and pictures, including small
Raphael, and the whole Of the splendid col
lection of ancient furniture on the second
floor were burned. The loss is 81, 900, 600 !;
uninsured.
weight has been exported for the first time
by Russia from the Caucasus. Large car
goes Of this wheat have been sent to Odessa
across the Black Sea from the ports Of Poti
and Batoum, destined for the Adriatic and
the English Channel.
Germany has arranged for the sale to
the Turkish Government of 400, 1000 Mauser
rifles, which have been superseded in the
German army by repeating rifles.
The census Of France for 1886 shows a
total population of 50 21s, 1858; against 81, ,672,
04s in 1881. The population of Paris has in
creased only Il, 900 against 2sO, 900 recorded
in 1881.
The wheat harvest in Victoria, Australia,
is Il, ,000, 900 bushels, an average Of twelve
bushels per acre. The exportable excess is
$50, 900 tons, or 10000 tons over that of the
preceding year.
An epidemic Of typhoid fever is raging at
ClermontFerrand, France. Eighteen hun
dred persons out Of q population Of 4o, ZOO
have been attacked. tits supposed that the
epidemic was started by impure water.
The new Touring mill at Carberry, on the
Canadian Pacific railway, one hundred
miles west Of Winnipeg, Man., was wrecked
on the 7th by an explosion caused by the
ignition Of flour dust. Loss s35, 900.
At Montreal, Can, on the 9th Chief Jus.
tice Dorion rendered decision on the ap-
plication for writ of habeas corpus in the
J. F. Hoke extradition case, sustaining the
decision of the judge who committed Hoke
| for extradition.